Proselyte

The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of Koinē Greek: προσήλυτος, romanized: prosēlutos, as used in the Septuagint for "stranger", i.e. a "newcomer to Israel"; a "sojourner in the land", and in the Novum Testamentum Graece for a first-century convert to Judaism. It is a translation of Biblical Hebrew: גר תושב or ger toshav. "Proselyte" also has the more general meaning in English of a new convert to any particular religion or doctrine.

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